Banks

Risk-taking is after all what you would expect from entrepreneurs, many of whom have not just made huge fortunes but also lost them in spectacular bankruptcies…

It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for? What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a 10-point economic detox programme.…

David Ransom argues that government by theft is no longer confined to the 'Third World' - nor oligarchy to the former Soviet Union.…

Or how the Masters of the Universe could have taught the miners a thing or two.…

How did we get here? *David Ransom* takes a global – and historical – look.…

What turns a credit crunch into a financial crisis? One reliable signis when people who have always advocated privatization, free marketsand deregulation start demanding - without apology - governmentintervention, hand-outs, even 'nationalization'…

The Aid Debate continues with Teresa Hayter challenging a cherished premise …

A recent farewell letter by famed hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde, gives an interesting insider’s perpsective into the financial crisis…

It’s funny, but has it struck anyone how amazing it is that incapitalism’s latest crisis, governments can suddenly find billions,nay, trillions of dollars to buy out the ailing banks? All withtaxpayers’ money of course.…

As a radio program thats always in search of new horizons, this weeks co-host is a pioneering reporter from Somalia Ahmed Abdisalam Adan who explains the most recent conflict in his country from his HornAfrik newsroom bunker in the capital, Mogadishu…